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XP Paint – A Web-Based Version of Window XP's MS Paint
- chowderman 6y agoHere is the repo as well: https://github.com/chowderman/xp-paint https://github.com/chowderman/xp-paint. Note: this is in no way affiliated with Microsoft, its merely a fan project based on my love of Windows XP
- bevenky 6y agoSelecting using the box tool and delete should delete the selection :) Good work.
- maxmcd 6y agoHow easy do you think it would be to create share links with the canvas state? Would be cool to share links to these things.
- rexreed 6y agoThis is awesome! I Still use Paint.Net in my VMWare emulator. There's some things in Paint.Net I really like including Crop to selection and things involving layers. If you ever plan to expand to include that, I'd be all ears!
- apatheticonion 6y agoAdded a PR to make it installable on desktop. The build script rewrites the link to a local directory for some reason though
- ant6n 6y agoThis is great, thanks!
- consultutah 6y agoThe best version of paint. ;)
- chowderman 6y agoyou know it! It had a sleek and modern look for the time, while still having the simplicity and user-friendliness of MS Paint from Win 95/98. really wish this version of paint was still supported in Win 10
- matjazdrolc 6y agoSurely it can be packed as an Electron app?
- CyberDildonics 6y agoWhy would you do that? If it runs in a web page, it could be condensed to a single .html file.
- pantaloony 6y agoI wouldn’t be surprised if a stripped-to-the-bone installation of WinXP in a VM, running only Paint, is lighter on system resources than Electron running this.
- jaclaz 6y agoA very basic XP install with a GUI can fit in 20-30 MB[1][2][3], using minlogon, but even with a "standard" Winlogon it should be below 50 MB, so it surely would take less disk space than the hypothetical 100 MB electron based version. [1] http://reboot.pro/topic/3717-xpsp1-with-full-commandline-and-ntfs-below-10-mb/ http://reboot.pro/topic/3717-xpsp1-with-full-commandline-and... [2]http://reboot.pro/topic/16765-minixp/ http://reboot.pro/topic/16765-minixp/ [3]http://mistyprojects.co.uk/documents/MiniXP/ http://mistyprojects.co.uk/documents/MiniXP/
- chowderman 6y agoIt can be packed very easily actually! It is a single HTML file, so you can easily embed it into an electron app or a webview if you wanted. Only problem is it would bring the total size to ~100 MB instead of ~1 MB, and would be tough to make it a single .exe file.
- mkup 6y agoFor some reason, I can't zoom via main menu (View/Zoom). Level 3 menu just diappears. (My browser is Firefox if this matters.) Keyboard accelerators don't work either (e.g. Alt+V,Z,L). Only level 1 menu works via keyboard accelerator (Alt+V).
- captbaritone 6y agoLooks like this is a fork of https://jspaint.app/ https://jspaint.app/
- bevenky 6y agoThis looks like Win98 paint :)
- cpach 6y agoWhat is the difference between those two?
- chowderman 6y agoThe main differences are: * it works totally offline (it performs no XHR requests and none of the libraries are linked to CDNs or other sites) * is contained within a single ~1 MB in size .html file (I baked all images, scripts, style sheets, etc. within a single file) * is lighter, as I removed some features to keep it closer to the original (but kept a few like the history and rendering as a GIF) * is Win XP themed instead of Win 95
- joeraut 6y agoThey disclose this in the (beautifully done) about page.
- moolcool 6y agoThe square brush tool is broken https://imgur.com/a/2CqIdhx https://imgur.com/a/2CqIdhx
- jayd16 6y agoSame for me as well.
- somehnguy 6y agoThis version of MS Paint is like the peak example of covering 99% of basic use cases while being incredibly simple to use. Whenever I need to make an arbitrary image real quick I miss this version of Paint. Nothing else I can find in 2020 even comes close to its intuitive interface.
- smhenderson 6y agoIsn't mspaint in Windows 10 basically the same thing but with a ribbon instead of a toolbar? I don't much care for the ribbon but I'm used to it now. Hitting WinKey-R, mspaint, [Enter] is still my goto for simple picture editing, even just recording a screenshot despite the existence of the snipping tool... Other than the minor annoyance of getting used to the ribbon I felt as if I was still using the same old paint when I did this.
- somehnguy 6y agoIt's similar but in my opinion with every release Microsoft makes their products slightly more unintuitive. This version of Paint is far simpler to view and instantly know what to click to get what you want.
- CarbyAu 6y agoSimilar to you, "discoverability" is what irks me about MS trend recently. As you say, the version you can "view and instantly know" = easy to discover what/how you can do. A lot of MS stuff recently seems to have forgotten that people need visual cues to "know" what to do.
- JoeSmithson 6y agoTwo things I dislike about the new Paint are; 1. Can't select secondary colour with right click 2. Needs way more clicks to get a filled Rectangle
- mumbisChungo 6y agoNumber 2 took me from using paint constantly to just using photoshop instead.
- nicoburns 6y agoIs you like MS Paint art then you should check out Jim'll Paint It (https://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/ https://jimllpaintit.tumblr.com/ - also on facebook). He takes requests.
- stan_rogers 6y agoThat's... an unfortunate name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Savile
- mkl 6y agoNonsense. Jim is a very common name, too widespread to be impacted by one bad guy.
- vanderZwan 6y agoGP wasn't comparing just the name "Jim", it was comparing "Jim'll Paint It" to "Jim'll Fix It". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%27ll_Fix_It https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%27ll_Fix_It
- mkl 6y agoOkay, now I understand their point. Strange not to link it though.
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoThat's the joke.
- ape4 6y agoIs anyone else having trouble going View > Zoom > Normal
- lajawfe 6y agoSo is this just a fork of https://jspaint.app/ https://jspaint.app/ with styling changes?
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- ry4nolson 6y agoyep says so in the Help > About modal "XP Paint is a fork of the web-based remake of MS Paint called JS Paint."
- glerk 6y agoSmall bug: on Brave browser, the "fill" tool is not covering 100% of the pixels https://i.imgur.com/Ej6owmI.png https://i.imgur.com/Ej6owmI.png
- 2038AD 6y agoThis is a very good recreation. Pleased to see it even replicates the hidden zoom (below 8x). I also spot a good inaccuracy: the undo doesn't appear limited to 3 :-)
- _nickwhite 6y agoIn 1993 I was 12 years old and spent many, many hours drawing a pixel-perfect replica of the Mortal Kombat dragon logo in MS Paintbrush (the name of MS Paint at the time). I believe it was a 640x480 BMP. I so wish I had saved a copy of this and all of the other stuff I downloaded off bulletin boards! Stuff like this got me started in web graphics, HTML, and eventually sysadmin. To this day I still take screenshots (PrtScn) and save them using pbrush (WinKey+R pbrush).
- n-gauge 6y agoNice job! (Would like to see Ctrl + e focus into the first value box)
- c9fc42ad 6y agoThese always miss my favorite hidden feature of mspaint: Control + Scrolling should be able to increase/decrease the size of the brush to sizes much larger than you can normally select. Instead, this just zooms the browser but maybe it could be changed to alt + scroll or something.
- user1234568 6y agoThere is also https://jspaint.app/ https://jspaint.app/
- mehrdadn 6y agoIf you don't like the display scaling, you can try running this in the browser console: document.body.style.zoom = 1 / window.devicePixelRatio
- p4bl0 6y agoOh my! This even has the secret x10 zoom! That's awesome. :)
- djxfade 6y agoHow where you able to implement such a fast floodfill? I tried to make something similar a few years ago, but was not able to get the floodfilling to work in reasonably time
- EquallyJust 6y agoHere's the source code for draw_fill: https://github.com/chowderman/xp-paint/blob/b6dfcce7f449d3bb6eec21c3c859571067e7c771/xp-paint/src/image-manipulation.js#L362 https://github.com/chowderman/xp-paint/blob/b6dfcce7f449d3bb...
- thedays 6y agoNice work! It would be great if you could include a feature to crop an image, similar to how you can in MS Paint. Crop is the feature I probably use most often in MS Paint.
- adamredwoods 6y agoAs much as I enjoy this, I feel for it to really shine would be a desktop version, not locked into the browser. I think a Chromium/Electron app would be fine.
- notRobot 6y agoI couldn't disagree more. An entire electron app just for mspaint? That's ridiculous.
- adamredwoods 6y agoI disagree with you. The way I work is based in realms of OS apps, not browser tabs. Electron is bloated, but for a 'cute' app like this I don't think it's any worse than Slack, or a Qt app. Overall, I'm less likely to use an app on a regular basis if I need to go to a website to use it.
- forgotpwd16 6y agoHow will it differ? In both cases you'll be running a web browser. At least right now you don't have to install another one.
- adamredwoods 6y agoI don't want to have to go to a web address to use it.
- forgotpwd16 6y agoThen just make a shortcut. Depending on your browser `firefox --ssb $URL` or `chromium --app=$URL`.
- anonytrary 6y agoHoly crap that was fun. Big fan of the history view and the spray effect. Is the cursor lagging behind the mouse intentionally or is it just lag because javascript? I didn't notice anything else lagging, but I don't remember MS Paint having a mass/drag effect like that. FWIW, I found it even easier to write my name with the pencil on a trackpad.
- destory-everyth 6y agoThis is the best replica of mspaint I have seen everything looks and behaves exactly the same , well done!
- hirako2000 6y agoI wish it would save as bmp only, that png feature makes it orders of magnitudes less horrific than the orignal paint. And I think it should only save to localStorage, so that saving a few images would fill up all the space like I quickly did on my few GBs hardrive.
- bionoid 6y agoNice work! Please add a LICENSE file
- thorin 6y agoStarted using MS Paint or whatever it was called then after years of drawing on Deluxe Paint on the Amiga. I wasn't very impressed, but now after seeing later alternatives it's actually not too bad. Didn't Hockney do lots of recent paintings on the most basic iPad drawing program?
- randomsearch 6y agoSomeone I know once got brief access to source code for a version of Windows that included paint. He had just a few mins with it and opened up the source to paint because he liked the software. One of the variable names was something like “fluffy_bunny_rabbit” and he read a comment that said “this fixes bug X, I don’t understand why, but just leave this code here.” Unsure if former softies can confirm this was code quality back then...